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 Chris Price reports on the developments in artificial intelligence that are helping to provide ‘big data’ to companies and make our lives simpler Stephen Hawking Image 1 of 2 Professor Stephen Hawking believes that full artificial intelligence poses a threat to human existence Photo: 2015 Anthony Harvey Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator Image 1 of 2 Features.
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 By Chris Price 4:10PM GMT 04 Mar 2015 Artificial intelligence (AI) - the idea that machines and software can think and act like humans - isn’t new.
 Back in the early years of computing, Alan Turing predicted some of the ethical questions around AI that we still wrestle with today.
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 To Professor Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence.
 He told the BBC in a recent interview: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
" However, he conceded that elements of basic AI had been useful for him personally.